The 10 Bt Gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas Movi of All Time

Contents:

• THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
• GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• TAKE CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS AND TURN GAY WH THE QUEER YULETI RATNS
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• 'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY
• WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• A BIG GAY GUI TO THIS YEAR’S QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI

THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME

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In 2020, Hallmark e QUITE the drama when they promised they would fally create a gay Christmas film for their work – and then “fot” to clu when they announced their listg. But was hard to overlook the fact that while both films featured a gay uple, they were mor characters – or at bt, part of an ensemble st! I do have to ll out somethg I’ve noticed this year, everyone seems to be promotg Hallmark’s 2022 film The Holiday Ster the channel’s “first gay Christmas rom-” – umm, exce me?

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Have we fotten all the drama of 2020 and “The Christmas Hoe”, what they promised at the time to be the first gay Christmas Hallmark film?

However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie. A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal. Dec 11 (starrg Mean Girls' Jonathan Bent and Gee Krissa, 's the work's first-ever holiday rom- wh a same-sex uple ont and center), now is a great time to round up the all-time bt gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas movi ever this list, all feature films that heavily feature Christmas and LGBTQIA+ characters are fair game.

Related: See Hallmark's Christmas Movie Lp for This YearPhilemon Chambers and Michael Urie the Christmas movie "Sgle All the Way" on NetflixNetflixSgle All the Way (2021)Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Hoc Poc' Kathy Najimy and LGBTQ in Jennifer Coolidge (h off her bt performance ever, The Whe Lot) star Netflix's exclive high-profile rom- about gay bt iends who disver feelgs over the holiday season, as one pos as the other's boyiend. Related: The Bt Christmas Episos of Your Favore TV ShowsThe Christmas Setup (2020)Ben Lewis, Blake Lee and gay in Fran Drcher star the Lifetime origal movie The Christmas Setup, about a New York attorney who llis wh his high school csh on a holiday vis back home.

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A lbian uple who lnched a legal battle over equali IVF treatment between heterosexual and same-sex upl have dropped their fight after their lol re board pledged to make treatment sts media fluencers Megan and Whney Ban-Evans lnched a landmark “gay tax” discrimatn se after NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) said same-sex upl, sgle women and upl unable to have vagal terurse would have to pay for 12 rounds of IVF before qualifyg for NHS assistance. Very recently, that’s started to change — after pullg a shot of a lbian weddg om a mercial 2019, Hallmark released s first Christmas movie wh a leadg gay uple on Sunday.

If you’re longg for the zy warmth of a chey Christmas love story, though, there are still a few optns out there — so look no further to fd a queer romance that’ll help you rg the holiday All the Way (2021)Netflix’s first origal gay Christmas movie me out jt last year, and ’s an ial watch for fans of chey, fortg Hallmark fare. It featur an on-the-nose appearance om bona fi gay in Jennifer Coolidge, who at one pot m, “for some reason, they’re always obssed wh me.

The plot is rehgly not about facg homophobia or how hard is to be gay — oh, and did I mentn the leads actually have chemistry?

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The film’s got yet another mom tryg to set up her gay son (here, played by Fran Drcher) and is wrten by screenwrer Michael Murray, a holiday-film veteran who has been “phg for gay characters” sce 2012 and was thrilled to fally get to wre a storyle foced on queer Holiday Ster (2022)Cady Heron’s one-time csh stars as the lead Hallmark’s first-ever LGBTQ-led Christmas movie that buted as part of the work’s annual Countdown to Christmas. Jonathan Bent (of “Mean Girls”), who joked he’s now “the gay kg of Christmas” an Out Magaze terview published last week (we’re not argug), will star as a man who enlists his neighbor’s help to tackle the challeng of holiday babystg.

Bent, as an executive producer, origally me up wh the ia of a “gay ‘Uncle Buck’ for Hallmark” on the set of another holiday movie three years ago.

“It was important that the actor was openly gay and out; was important to me that we were able to tell the story loud and proud, ” Bent said. Likeng the shoot to a kd of “gay summer mp” wh queer creativ on both sis of the mera, Bent and Krissa both relled a day on set when they unrstood the power of posive reprentatn.

GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS

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“They took Christ out of Christmas and turned gay, ” he cried out to the sperate wilrns of nservative Twter. Now jt wa until Schaffer fds out Tchaikovsky, who provid the famo sre for The Nutcracker, was gay. Hontly, there’s nothg gayer than havg strong opns about holiday ratns.

And sce Christmas is, was, and always will be gay as hell, here are some wonrfully queer and betifully tacky ratns to add to your home…. They’re hard to e by, bee the gay Christmas agenda is wng, obvly, so if you n get your hands on one of Target’s queer nutcrackers, nsir yourself fortunate.

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Gay agenda ornament. Speakg of the gay Christmas agenda, if we’re gog to keep triggerg the cishets like Elijah we are gog to have to stay on our game. A gay agenda ornament will keep you foced durg the hectic holiday season and to the new year, remdg you to get back to at 100 percent 2022.

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This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13).

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There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed. Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year. “I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work. '” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday.

Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for . “It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed. And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time.

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Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father. I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season.

That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent. That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry. Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers?

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That’s a transformative notn for a lot of gay people.

Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston.

Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for. Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay. “There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general. Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay.

“He’s this amazg bchy gay guy! All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Gay Leads. “I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute. That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace). ” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny.

By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters. The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark.

SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM

One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc.

May your gays be merry and bright.

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"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn! Netflix's first gay holiday romantic edy, "Sgle All the Way" (now streamg), has arrived to lift holiday spirs and change up a tradnally heterosexual, there has been a glut of LGBTQ holiday romance movi as of late – Hulu's "Happit Season" and Hallmark's "The Christmas Hoe" premiered last year, among others – but this one rehgly avoids a g out story and ters to a queer to mentn that the prence of gay in Jennifer Coolidge was "like a gay dream e te, " says star Michael film centers on Peter (Urie) and Nick (Philemon Chambers), bt iends and roommat Los Angel who have always kept their relatnship platonic.

"I've never seen that portrayed where there is a gay son and the fay who is heterosexual wants the son to be a relatnship wh another gay man.

A BIG GAY GUI TO THIS YEAR’S QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI

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)Netflix approached screenwrer Chad Hodge ("The Darkt Mds, " "Good Behavr") and asked him to wre the streamer's first gay Christmas romantic edy. The gay wrer had never wrten a Christmas movie before but lik to keep himself on his everyone gets right:Why 'Happit Season' falls short as a LGBTQ romantic holiday edy He wrote the role of Peter's Aunt Sandy – a former off-Broadway diva charge of the lol Christmas pageant – wh Coolidge  md, wh no guarantee she'd actually sign on.